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Reproduction

Diet

They eat small arthropods, mainly insects.

Predators

Their enemies are mainly snakes, birds and mammals.

Habitat

They live in trees in tropical forests, primarily in Cuba.

Ecology, behaviour

These lizards change colour quickly when stressed. The male's dewlap is larger than the female's. It inflates and becomes very conspicuous when he tries to intimidate another male. During the mating period, the male performs a mating dance, raising and lowering his head and expanding his dewlap to impress the female. If she accepts his advances, she arches her back. Otherwise, she ignores him.

French name

Anole vert d'Amérique Centrale

Scientific name

Anolis biporcatus

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Iguanidae

Size

Length: 25 cm

Life span

3 to 4 years

Status

These reptiles appear to be common in the wild

At the Biodôme

This animal is no longer present in the ecosystem. The anoles use to live with the poison-arrow frogs, geckos and emerald tree boas in the Tropical Forest ecosystem. The lizards played an important role by eating insects to control their numbers in the forest. We intentionally put the geckos, which are nocturnal lizards, together with the anoles, which are diurnal lizards, so as to have insectivores active day and night.